Swine Health - General Disease
Development of a vector platform to control swine enteric coronavirus disease
December 10, 2016By Diego Diel
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) was first detected in the US in 2013. After its introduction, PEDV rapidly spread throughout the country, causing the deaths of over 7 million piglets and...
Swine Health - General Disease
Generation of specimens of precisely known coronavirus infection status for the development and validation of highly-specific porcine coronavirus antibody assays.
December 8, 2016By Luis Gimenez-Lirola
• In the field, pigs are exposed to different coronaviruses that are known to share genetic and antigenic traits that may contribute to false-positive results. Recent evidence suggesting...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Use of animal movement data and epidemiological modeling to identify premises at high risk of infection in the event of a foot-and-mouth disease epidemic
December 8, 2016By Andres Perez
Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most contagious and economically relevant diseases affecting livestock and is rapidly transmitted between hosts. Fortunately, the US swine industry has...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of dietary soybean meal replacement on grow-finisher pig performance when challenged with PRRS and Mycoplasma
December 8, 2016By Nicholas Gabler
The amino acids requirements of growing-finishing pigs are met by utilizing a variety of protein rich ingredients, including soybean meal (SBM) and distillers dried grains with solubles, as well as...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Refining a model to investigate the interactive effects of health status and nutrition on nutrient and energy utilization in pigs
December 8, 2016By Thomas Burkey
Each year the National Pork Board identifies infectious disease prevention as a high-priority research area. The prevention and treatment of diseases common to swine operations represents a...
Pork Quality
Developing equations for rapid and accurate prediction of carcass fat quality
December 7, 2016By Mark Knauer
The concepts of least cost diet formulation, feeding of alternative feed ingredients and production throughput have become common practice in the swine industry. The inclusion of alternative...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Development of "Nutritional Tools" to Estimate ME Content in Rendered Animal Protein By-products for Swine – Revised with Expanded Objectives
December 6, 2016By Gerald Shurson
Rendering is a process of grinding, heating, partial separation of fat, and drying of a wide array of inedible animal and carcass tissues, including blood, feathers, muscle, bones, fat, and...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluating nutritional strategies to mitigate the negative impact PRRS has on grow-finisher pig performance
December 5, 2016By Nicholas Gabler
Of the health challenges the swine industry face, Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) virus is arguably one of the most economically costly viruses to U.S. and world pork production....
Human Nutrition
Protein consumption from meat vs. dairy as complementary foods on infant growth, body composition and gut microbiome: a controlled feeding study
December 5, 2016By Nancy Krebs
a. Background
The 1st year of life is very important for later-in-life obesity and heart disease development. Studies have shown that protein intake from dairy is associated with rapid weight gain,...
Swine Health - General Disease
Determination of the importance of porcine parvovirus type 2 (PPV2) in porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) outbreaks by elimination of PPV2 through vaccination at weaning
December 2, 2016By Tanja Opriessnig
Despite widespread porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) vaccination in the growing pig population, occurrence of porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) can be observed particularly in larger...
Swine Health - General Disease
A candidate swine influenza virus vaccine: in vivo evaluation of novel chimeric hemagglutinins expressed by parainfluenza virus 5 (PIV5) vector
December 1, 2016By Victor Huber
The goal of this project was to evaluate candidate influenza vaccines that induce broad immunity against multiple influenza viruses in pigs. These vaccines have been designed to induce immune...
Swine Health - General Disease
Pilot study to develop ante-mortem synovial fluid and synovium sample collection techniques in growing swine and to refine a Mycoplasma hyosynoviae (MHS) arthritis case definition (453-23-79)
November 30, 2016By Locke Karriker|Paisley Canning
Infectious lameness in growing pigs is an emerging problem in the United States. Lameness is an animal welfare concern and increases production costs. Mycoplasma hyosynoviae is considered to be the...
